Rahul Gandhi

Muslim First

Minhaz Merchant

Would Rahul learn from Rajiv?

The Great Rebound

BJP regains momentum with its historic hat-trick in Haryana, allowing Modi to renew his attack on Congress as a party driven by a divisive agenda, while Jammu & Kashmir delivers a pro-development verdict

Pro-Separatist Rhetoric

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The turn in Abdullah’s election rhetoric might have something to do with his recent loss in the Lok Sabha polls to Sheikh Abdul Rashid (Engineer Rashid), a Kashmiri separatist

Modi is human, too

Virendra Kapoor

How can anyone hold it against him if he feels betrayed by the outcome of the last parliamentary polls?

Rahul Gandhi: Bad Manners

Rajeev Deshpande

His criticism of Indian democracy abroad is a misreading of the election results

A Worn-Out Old LP

Virendra Kapoor

Rahul Gandhi seems to be stuck on a caste survey without which, he suggests, the hitherto weaker castes cannot be expected to make any progress

Feeding the Fault Lines

PR Ramesh

India could end up paying a high price for the Opposition’s political opportunism and exploitation of contentious issues from caste to lateral entry in government

Evasive Pawar

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The Maratha reservation demand is a hot potato for all parties in Maharashtra

System Override

Madhavankutty Pillai

The lateral entry scheme to the bureaucracy never did have much of a chance of success in India

Anurag Thakur’s New Role

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He has been assigned the role of ‘lead attacker’ by his party and has focused on articulating BJP’s political response to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and other Opposition speakers